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MyBB Tutorial - How to move admin directory/Make your site much more secure! - Villain - 09-16-2013
Hey,
This is a short tutorial, but it is crucial every forum uses it it will increase your security a lot.
So, what does this do?
Well, when you first start a forum the admin panel link will be something like;
www.yoursitename.com/admin.php
Which is easy to find, and easier for hackers to bruteforce etc, so you want to make it hard to find.
How can you do this?
Well, for this I used;
Filezilla
So, lets get started.
Go into filezilla, go to public_html and then there will be a folder called " admin " or something similar.
Right click it and now you are going to rename it. You should choose something which is very hard to guess and I suggest a encrypted word and make sure it is long, with; numbers, letters & symbols.
Now, you have renamed it, you are going to have to go to the folder called " inc " in public_html, and then there will be a file called " config.php " you want to open it by right clicking it and clicking view/edit.
Now look for the word " admin " or whatever your admin directory was called by default and you need to change the word " admin " to whatever you renamed to the admin folder too.
Now, click save and you are done.
Hope this helped, any problems? Feel free to ask me for help.